Results 41-60 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 205. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the €11 million in new funding for drugs and inclusion health services in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if a specific funding allocation to address Children’s Health Ireland’s spinal surgery waiting lists has been provided for in Budget 2026; if so, to provide a detailed breakdown of this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57567/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to implementation of the TB strategy in Budget 2026; to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 208. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if 6,000 funded posts have been left vacant by the HSE in 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57569/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 209. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the 6,000 funded posts left vacant by the HSE in 2025 (details supplied), by grade and location, in tabular form. [57570/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 212. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the continued implementation of the HSE Health Regions; the actions that will be taken in 2026 to further implementation; the expected date at which she expects full implementation to have taken place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to implementation of the HSE Health Regions in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57574/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 214. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 2 April 2025, the amount spent by the HSE on agency staffing and private recruitment firms to date in 2025, in tabular form; the services to which these payments relate; and the amount paid to each agency and firm. [57575/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time agency posts converted to HSE posts in 2024 and to date in 2025, by staff category, in tabular form. [57576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time agency posts expected to be converted to HSE posts in 2026, by staff category, in tabular form. [57577/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to reduce the HSE’s reliance on agency staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57578/25]

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Like Deputy Bacik, I wish to express my concerns about the scenes we are seeing in Dublin tonight and I ask Members to think twice before inflaming tensions even further. It is something we should all be mindful of. On the motion at hand, I believe in a new and united Ireland, one with a thriving all-island economy, with universal public services and inclusive politics. We have a real...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the actions her Department is taking to address the staffing shortages at this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Parks and Wildlife Service (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the ongoing investigation into the felling of trees in Cork (details supplied); the actions taken by his Department to date on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57093/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to establishing a medically supervised injection centre in Cork; the work carried out to date in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56508/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 724. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to state-funded assisted human reproduction treatments in Budget 2026; her plans for this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56517/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 725. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority in Budget 2026; to provide a detailed breakdown of this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 768. To ask the Minister for Health the reason she has only appointed seven ordinary members to the Board of the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority (AHRRA), given that section 126(1) of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 provides that the Board shall consist of ten ordinary members; her plans to appoint three further ordinary members to the board; the timeline for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 769. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of acute inpatient beds in each public hospital, by hospital and health region, in tabular form. [56660/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 770. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of community beds, by location and health region, in tabular form. [56661/25]